Please note that we are working on a server upgrade tool that brings the benefits of update-manager to the server: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerUpgradeTool
I think the documentation should be made more clear. Update-manager is strongly recommended, but apt-get dist-upgrade should will still work. You need to careful check what it wants to do and check the release notes. Stuff that update-manager is doing mostly automatically. Cheers, Michael P.S. Thanks Freddy for brining this to the attention of the doc team! -- Cannot upgrade Dapper->Edgy without update-manager https://launchpad.net/bugs/75549 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
